Ignition Partners led a $14 million Series C financing round in Couchbase, a NoSQL database software company. Based in Mountain View, Calif., Couchbase said it will use the funding to invest in product development, pursue enterprise partnerships and expand overseas.

Seattle-based Ignition has been busy investing in California companies these days, with an emphasis on those in the cloud computing space. Ignition general partner Frank Artale said Couchbase is a market leader and has a proven ability to scale up its platform.

Rumors have been circulating that Microsoft will release the next version of its Windows Phone operating system, codenamed Mango, on September 1. However, a Windows Phone exec denied in a tweet that Mango will be released in three weeks.

All Microsoft has said is that the new version will be released this fall, though tech blog Pocket-lint reports "multiple trusted sources" say September 1 is the day because it coincides with the IFA trade show in Berlin.

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